Bob & Sarah's 2017 Home Country 'Walk About'

What/Where/How: A llama trek around the heart of wild Idaho encompassing the mountain ranges of the Smoky, Sawtooth, Middle Fork of the Salmon River East and West Slope, White Cloud, Boulder and Pioneer. The horse-shoe shaped route begins near the Snake River Plain’s Shoshone Ice Caves and ends at the Plains’ Craters of the Moon National Monument.

Why: A celebration of the wild nature of a beloved home country, a life partnership and Bob’s 75th birthday. Also, we are raising money for the 2018 class of Wild Gift fellows by asking people to make Wild Miles pledges for each of the 500 miles traveled. You support will motivate us to keep going when the trail gets tough!

Factoids:

Two wild trekkers plus a few family and friends periodically joining their trail.

A huge US wilderness: The contiguous mountains of the Sawtooth, Middle Fork of the Salmon River, White Cloud and Boulders are the largest congressionally designated US wilderness outside of Alaska. The adjoining Smoky and Pioneer Mountains are wilderness study areas.

The Middle Fork of the Salmon is one of the nation’s charter Wild & Scenic Rivers.

The Great Rift Wilderness of the Snake Plain is one of the nation’s most recent and wild areas of volcanic activity.